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  • Pascal Birchler: From Blogger to WordPress Core Committer

    Pascal Birchler: From Blogger to WordPress Core Committer

    WordCamp London 2016Speaker: Pascal Birchler

    May 26, 2016 — I’ll talk about my humble beginnings as a WordPress user and how I eventually got commit access to WordPress core. By telling my unique story I want to show how rewarding contributing to an open-source community can be and inspire people to do the same. I’ve been using WordPress since 2006, but only in the last three years I’ve been contributing heavily to the open-source project. I began attending the local meetup and the very first WordCamp in Switzerland. I attended WordCamp Europe 2013, where I submitted my first patch to WordPress core. Fast-forward to 2015, when I decided to develop a feature for embedding WordPress posts on other websites that made it into WordPress 4.4. How do these embeds work and what is it like to lead such a project? What does breaking the web by introducing bugs feel like? At the end of 2015, I attended WordCamp US where I was announced as one of seven new guest committers to the WordPress project. It wasn’t always an easy journey, but it has always been rewarding and I could always count on the helpful people around me. I will talk about the various ways people can contribute to WordPress and what it takes to be a core committer. Also, I will reveal what Swiss chocolate has to do with the latter…

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  • Naoko Takano: Translating WordPress to Japanese (WordPress 日本語翻訳の基礎)

    Naoko Takano: Translating WordPress to Japanese (WordPress 日本語翻訳の基礎)

    WordPress Translation Day, Global WordPress Translation Day 2016Speaker: Naoko Takano

    May 25, 2016 — Naoko Takano, one of Japanese General Translation Editors (GTE), presents some basic rules and tips for translating WordPress into Japanese.

    WordPress 日本語版作成チームの高野直子が、WordPress を日本語に翻訳するための基本的なルールやコツについてお話します。

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  • Frank Staude: VersionPress - Eine Einführung

    Frank Staude: VersionPress – Eine Einführung

    WordPress Meetup NürnbergSpeaker: Frank Staude

    May 20, 2016 — Frank Staude stellt beim WordPress Meetup Franken am 19.5.2016 das Plugin VersionPress vor, welches alle Veränderungen in WordPress in git versioniert.

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  • Maciej Pilarski: How To Make Your WordPress Website Multilingual

    Maciej Pilarski: How To Make Your WordPress Website Multilingual

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Maciej Pilarski

    May 20, 2016 — In my presentation, I will share tips on how to easily and quickly create a traditional multilingual website or eCommerce store.

    I will compare most popular multilingual plugins and also show how this can be done without using any plugins.

    Part of the talk will include the benefits to your business of going global and how this can be done in minutes.

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  • Kirsten Cassidy: À la commande de WP-CLI

    Kirsten Cassidy: À la commande de WP-CLI

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Kirsten Cassidy

    May 20, 2016 — Présentation sur WP-CLI et comment s’en servir pour certaines taches comme la mise en place d’un nouveau site, le « search and replace » dans la base des données, et les mises à jour des extensions et de thèmes. Éventuellement, « Community Commands » pour les extensions et shell scripting.

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  • Nicolas Juen: La WP API : la review technique

    Nicolas Juen: La WP API : la review technique

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Nicolas Juen

    May 19, 2016 — La WP REST API est là ! Mais quelles sont les implications techniques ?
    Nous allons faire le tour de la partie technique qui se cache derrière /wp-json/ mais aussi les possibilités en Javascript pour rendre son site plus dynamique et rapide !
    Découvrons ensemble les mutiples facettes et possibilités de la WP API qui attend le/la dev en ambuscade.

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  • Luca Sartoni: Growth Methodologies In a Distributed Environment

    Luca Sartoni: Growth Methodologies In a Distributed Environment

    WordCamp Bratislava 2016Speaker: Luca Sartoni

    May 19, 2016 — Testing activities are effective only under strict circumstances. When I started my adventure at Automattic, the welcome message was: “Welcome to the chaos”. This presentation narrates the journey we had to conduct to implement strict growth methodologies in a distributed environment.

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  • Stefan Kremer: WordPress Security

    Stefan Kremer: WordPress Security

    WordPress Meetup MünchenSpeaker: Stefan Kremer

    May 18, 2016 — Nach einem kurzen einführenden Vortrag diskutieren wir das Thema in der Runde und Ihr könnt Fragen stellen.

    Stefan Kremer kümmert sich mit seiner Firma AdminPress professionell um die Sicherheit von WordPress Seiten. Er ist ausserdem Mitglied im Orgateam für das WPMeetup Franken, das das nächste WordCamp Deutschland in Nürnberg im April 2016 auf die Beine stellt.

  • Andrea Cardinali: SEO on-site e WordPress: Errori da evitare

    Andrea Cardinali: SEO on-site e WordPress: Errori da evitare

    WordPress Meetup RomagnaSpeaker: Andrea Cardinali

    May 17, 2016 — Nello speech vengono analizzati i principali problemi relativi alla SEO on-site presenti nei siti in WordPress. In particolare si parla di: gestione dei meta title e description, duplicazione dei contenuti, gestione dei tag e delle categorie, utilizzo degli status code http, gestione dell’architettura informativa del sito e del linking interno.
    Per ognuna delle tematiche trattate vengono fornite le best practices e i plugins che permettono di risolvere in maniera definitiva i problemi di ottimizzazione e di ottenere un’indicizzazione ottimale.

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  • Maxime Bernard-Jacquet: Comment l’API Rest WP va changer notre avenir

    Maxime Bernard-Jacquet: Comment l’API Rest WP va changer notre avenir

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Maxime Bernard-Jacquet

    May 16, 2016 — L’API Rest arrive dans le core WordPress et va nous ouvrir les portes de nouveaux usages, qui vont très surement révolutionner notre utilisation de WordPress à terme. Qu’est-ce qu’une API avant tout ? Quel est le principe de fonctionnement de base de l’API Rest de WordPress ? Quels usages vont apparaitre avec elle ? Des thèmes plus dynamiques, des nouvelles interfaces backend (en faisant la correspondance à ce que Calypso a déjà accompli), l’interconnexion avec d’autres systèmes (par exemple les apps mobiles natives), et les possibles produits qui vont en découler (par exemple WP en tant que backend CMS pour l’édition de contenus d’apps mobile…)

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